Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.…

Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter) Chat with AI in RStudio Test warnings faster R-hub …

The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life. Episode Links This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter) Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Act…

Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics. Episode Links This week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstd…

How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter) Update on mocking for testing R package…

An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar…

A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_C…

How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) I Patched R …

Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”) ggplot2 3.5.0 Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It! Entire issue availabl…

Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @t…

A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twi…

Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) Teaching you - teaching me Things that ca…

The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links This week's curato…

How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) How to Update …

A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) How to work with APIs…

We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@po…

A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V? Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NH…

A timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Cliff no…

A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) Object-Oriented Exp…

From the "is there anything R cannot do" department comes QR code scanning, a tidy time series analysis on a major problem in the roads of Pittsburgh, and rolling up your sleeves with custom ggplot2 tricks to enhance a spatial visualization. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Scanni…

A collection of post-workshop answers for the R/Pharma introduction to tidymodels workshop, the Shiny UI Editor takes a huge step out of the alpha stage, and a unique approach to Shiny modules with the new component package. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Answering some…

Another collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines. Episode Links This week's …

How the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) How to translate your package's m…

A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon…

Reflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Reflections on posit conf(2023) S…

Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS …

A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds Grants For R Language…

The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) {S7} 0.1.0: An O…

A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @…

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) She issued install.packages() -- you won't be…

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (…

Reducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density gradients to account for overplotting, and a fun way to add attribution to your fancy ggplots. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce(…

How consistent formatting and styling is valuable technique for debugging, a visual tour-de-force of jazzing up your ggplots with the amazing ecosystem of extension packages, and why a little investment in learning HTML and CSS is worth your time as an R programmer. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Tips for…

The second edition of the highly-regarded R for Data Science arrives with substantial updates, an adventure with "A Programming Language" that brings new perspectives to functional programming approaches, and a new take on reproducibility in data science combining R with the Nix packaging system. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @the…

Releasing an Word document table into the land of markdown, a practical overview of sharing your machine learning model with others, and taking local control of checking the builds of your package across computing architectures. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Convert a Word tabl…

Uncovering powerful use cases of the slice() function in the tidyverse, a batch of new features and fixes for column labeling in gt 0.9.0, and a fun journey with tidymodels and visualizations on just how much the Reverend Thomas Bayes may have earned from his own home (probably). Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitt…

A batch of useful patterns for your next R project, the highly-anticipated dashboard components of {bslib} have arrived, and creating circle-based charts with customization using {ggtricks}. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) Three useful (to me) R patterns Towards easy, del…

Another terrific illustration of open-source collaboration in the latest updates to gptstudio, and a comprehensive journey of web scraping in R to bring much-needed automation to a practical research problem. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) On updating a chat assistant app for the RStudio IDE Static and Dynamic…

Another gem in the functional programming toolkit with partial functions, simplifying R package creation using fusen, and a creative visualization of worldwide parliament representation. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) Curried functions in R - Examples with purrr and ggplo…

A must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend taps into new compositing functionality for clearer plots, and how R stacks up with Excel in handling dates. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Better Understanding Your Tools Choices with Online Book HTTP Test…

Introducing the new ggflowchart package, how a dockerized development environment is another win for reproducibility, and our take on Colin Fay's keynote from the Appsilon Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Introducing {ggflowchart} Why you should consider workin…

Why effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the sketch package to transpile R code to JavaScript, and a primer on error handling in both R and Python. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of Requesting Changes Sketch Package look…

A few strict checks offered in R 4.3.0, measuring and writing performant code in the Tidyverse, and a please for indenting your code with (more) spaces. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) What's new in R 4.3.0? Writing performant code with tidy tools On Indentation in R Ent…

Using development containers to bootstrap a reproducible R and Quarto environment, a comprehensive approach to extending the data frame class, and plotting your own universe of labels with ggsolar. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Dev containers with R and Quarto Extend…

A data-driven look at package loading annotations in R scripts, a fit-for-purpose package that makes a large contribution to the global R ecosystem, and a collection of amazing showcases of webR in action that is paving the way for continued innovation. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.c…

Ten unique ways to create your own Web APIs in R, and how you can import local and remote data files in CSV and (yes) Excel formats with a selection of innovative R packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks Reading Remote Data Files Entire issue availa…

A new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with vector databases, and three ways you can add alt text to your R-based visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) Some love for Base R. Part 1 Teaching ChatGPT What It Doesn’…

The future of running R in your web browser is here with webR 0.1, a demonstration of integrating Quarto and webR with immense potential in the space of reproducible analysis, and two fundamental techniques from the world of software development tailored to non-programmers. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parm…

A episode full of discovery in this week's edition of R-Weekly Highlights! How you can parse your own R code with parse and getParseData, a closer look at the search capabilities in R-Universe, and a look back at the key milestones in the history of the R language. Episode Links This week's curators: Kellly Bodwin - @KellyBodwin (Twitter) and Emily…

How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Creating interactive visualizations with {ggi…